17. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The premise of this book is very interesting. It's a story about a perfect family of four, two parents and two children. The youngest child is discovered to have leukemia at age 2. She needs a bone marrow donor, and no one in the family is a perfect match. So the parents have a third child - a "designer" baby girl, the embryo specially chosen to be a perfect genetic match for their older daughter. At first the baby donates her cord blood to her older sister, which sends the older sister into a remission. Then as the years go by, the leukemia comes back, and the younger sister again donates - blood, bone marrow, until she feels like she can't give anymore. The book chronicles her difficult decision to stop donating to her sister, and her legal journey to become medically emancipated. I thought it was a super read.